Commentary

Why is one of the world's busiest airports also among the smallest, most dangerous and heavily guard

If Washington whispers are any guide, retired Air Force Gen. Thomas C. Richards may wait a long time

SELLING PUBLIC ASSETS to private companies is all the rage in Eastern Europe and Latin America. It's

EASTERN EUROPE'S painful economic reforms have taken their toll. High unemployment and even higher p

In 1979, with the U.S. facing a well-orchestrated effort by the Soviet Union and its satellites to a

SOUTHWESTERN STATES continue their campaign to cut production of natural gas. This week, Tex

It was Paul Tsongas who kept the jobs issue alive in the presidential campaign. As he slowly fades f

STATE PILOTS ARE AN ASSET TO SHIPPINGYour April 15 editorial tarred the state pilota

Since December 1990, when negotiations to conclude a new world trade agreement broke down, the Urugu

STATES CAN ENFORCE SOLVENCY STANDARDSWe echo your call for nationwide insurer solvency stand

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP., which already is trimming its management, now is moving to re

FOR THE PAST DECADE, Congress and the White House have looked for ways to commercialize technologies

Doubt that the Uruguay Round is in trouble? Consider this response from a senior U.S. administration

WITH FIVE TIMES MORE CARS per square mile than most industrialized nations, Holland has a horrific t

FEDERALLY LICENSED SHIP PILOTS ARE SAFEThe American Institute of Merchant Shipping (AIMS), w

Economic expansion in the United States, powered by gains in productivity and explosive short-term i

THE FAMILIES OF THOSE KILLED when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up in 1988 begin a long legal battle i

When British Prime Minister John Major offered Conservative Party Chairman Chris Patten the job of g

Finland's decision on March 18 to make itself the third member of the European Free Trade Associatio

KASTEN-DANFORTH BILL SHOULD BE STOPPEDYour April 21 editorial, "Product Liability," was disa

THE U.S. CATTLE INDUSTRY, already hit by a drop in consumption because of popular concern over fat i

"This is the final - I repeat - the final week of the Uruguay Round. There will be no extension. The

German Chancellor Helmut Kohl received a message this month he wasn't expecting. His ruling Christia

The United States is edging closer to agreements with Taiwan and Japan to renew, but phase out, thei

It is generally wise to be cautious when describing events as "crucial" or ''critical." On Wednesday

WHEN THE 12 MEMBER STATES of the European Community put their commitment for monetary and political

WORLDWIDE PRESSURE ON JAPAN to limit its exports continues to mount. Last week Tokyo did for

While the big New World Order is gestating, progress toward a mini-version is taking place in the re

"I got plenty o' nuttin' and nuttin's plenty for me." Ira Gershwin, "Porgy and Bess" * * * *

AS EACH DAY PASSES, the chance that anything useful will come from June's Earth Summit seems unlikel

Thanks in part to statesmanlike pressure from former President Nixon, President Bush has finally ann

HOW SAFE ARE TRUCK DRIVERS? Safer, it seems, than they've been, but not as safe as they're likely to

In spite of successful economic reforms, guerrilla warfare in Colombia is escalating and the energy

With his April 5 coup suspending the constitution and democratic processes, Peruvian President Alber

THERE SEEMS NO END to the havoc that bankrupt trucking companies can cause their former customers.

STATE PILOT SYSTEM SHOULD BE CHANGEDThanks for your April 15 editorial, "Freeing the Tiller"

The headline on a weekend Washington Post article was intriguing: "The 'Silent Service' Surfaces, Re

CONGRESS SHOULD MOVE PROMPTLY to change a 1990 aviation law that forcesairports to use Ameri

At first glance, it hardly seems the sort of thing that would trouble Japan's economic and legal com

Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady has a problem. It's an election year, the country is in a slump th